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Ursus arctos:
commonly known as the brown bear.
Wilderness Fund: a NGO in Sofia aiming to preserve the Bulgarian
bear population with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Trientalis europaea:
an endangered flower found in the peat bogs of Romania's Nemere Mountains.
Nemere Hiking Association: a Romanian NGO that saved this flower
from extinction with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Pteromys volans:
a rare mammal, most active during the night, usually found in the
hallows of old aspen trees in the northeastern forests of Latvia,
commonly referred to as the flying squirrel.
Latvian Mammalogical Society: a Latvian NGO trying to create
micro-sanctuaries for endangered species such as the flying squirrel
with the financial support of the Regional Environmental Center. |
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Proteus anguinus:
a highly distinct, eel-like and blind cave-dwelling salamander, commonly
known as the human fish.
Karst Protection Society: a Slovenian NGO aiming to preserve
Slovenia's delicate karst ecosystems and endangered cave-dwellers
with the financing support of the Regional Environmental Center. |
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Otis tarda: a globally
threatened bird species, known as the Great Bustard.
Society for the Protection of Birds in Slovakia: a NGO
working to save the critical remaining Bustard population in
Slovakia with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Papilio machaon:
a rare and colorful butterfly most commonly found in the south-east
pine-forests of Lithuania.
Biodiversity Information Center (BIOTA): a Lithuanian
NGO working to assess and preserve the country's biodiversity
with the financial support of the Regional Environmental Center. |
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Myotis capaccinii:
an endangered cave-dwelling bat found near Pleven, Bulgaria.
Green Balkans Sofia: A Bulgarian NGO which works to protect
bats in Bulgaria with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Romanichthys valsanicola: an endangered fossil freshwater fish species found
only in Romania's Valsan river.
People and Environment: a Romanian NGO working to preserve
this species with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Pelobates fuscus, Hyla arborea: known as the common spade foot and the European treefrog,
they represent protected and endangered amphibian species.
Salamandra, Toad Action Group: Salamandra maintains the
Morasko Meteorite Reserve in Poland which is home to many rare
species of amphibians. Toad Action Group works to preserve frog
species in Hungary. Both NGOs operate with the financial support
of the Regional Environmental Center. |
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Rupicapra rupicapra:
a species of mountain goat which survives the harsh rocky environment
2,000 metres above sea level in Macedonia - but nearly did not
survive intensive hunting earlier this century.
The Bird Study and Protection Society of Macedonia: an
NGO working to protect the birds, mammals and overall biodiversity
of Macedonia with the financing support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Ardeidae: the family
of long-legged, long-necked waterfowl, known as herons.
Platalea leucorodia: a wading bird with a flat spoonlike
bill, commonly called a spoonbill.
Croatian Ornithological Society: a NGO working to save
a mixed colony of herons and spoonbills in the Jelas fishponds
of Croatia with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Lutra lutra: a
very rare fur-bearing, web-footed, aquatic mammal, commonly known
as the River Otter.
Brontosaurus Association (Czech Republic), Bird Study and
Protection Society of Macedonia: NGOs working in two countries
in the region to save the River Otter, listed on Europe's red
list of endangered species, with the financial support of the
Regional Environmental Center. |
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Tyto alba: commonly
known as the barn owl, a medium-sized nocturnal predator with
acute hearing, found throughout Europe and valued for its role
in keeping rodent populations down.
Czech Union of Nature Protectors Vlasin: Czech NGO working
to protect the barn owl from lifethreatening, agricultural pesticides
and habitat destruction with the financial support of the Regional
Environmental Center. |
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Pelecanus crispus:
a large endangered waterfowl, known as the Dalmatian pelican,
is represented by only a small colony in Albania.
PPNEA and ASPBM: Albanian NGOs working to preserve the
country's lagoons, the primary breeding grounds for the Dalmatian
pelicans, with the financial support of the Regional Environmental
Center. |
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Pinus peuce: an
endemic tree species, commonly known as the Macedonian pine,
found on Pelister Mountain which was the first national park
in the
Bird Study and Protection Society of Macedonia: a Macedonian
NGO working to protect local endangered and endemic species with
the financing support of the Regional Environmental Center. |
